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| Type | Working Paper |
| Scope | Discipline-based scholarship |
| Title | Asymmetric effects of group-based appeals: the case of the urban rural divide |
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| Institution | University of Zurich |
| Series Name | URPP Equality of Opportunity Discussion Paper Series |
| Number | 26 |
| Number of Pages | 49 |
| Date | 2023 |
| Abstract Text | Group-based identities are an important basis of political competition. Parties appeal consciously to specific social groups and these group-based appeals often improve the evaluation of parties and candidates. Studying place-based appeals, we advance the understanding of this strategy by distinguishing between dominant and subordinate social groups. Using two survey experiments in Germany and England, we show that group appeals improve candidate evaluation among subordinate (rural) voters. By contrast, appeals to the dominant (urban) group trigger a negative reaction. While urban citizens’ weaker local identities and lower place-based resentment partly explain this asymmetry, they mainly dislike group-based appeals because of their antagonistic nature. If the same policies are framed as benefiting urban and rural dwellers alike, candidate evaluation improves. Thus, people on the dominant side of a group divide reject a framing of politics as antagonistically structured by this divide, even if they identify with the dominant group. |
| Official URL | https://www.urpp-equality.uzh.ch/dam/jcr:9d401ce4-2f9c-4aea-8f91-3dd6d44f1b36/26_Haffert%20Palmtag%20Schraff%20for%20CES%20(3).pdf |
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| Other Identification Number | merlin-id:24424 |
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